School: Boicetown, Dunleer (roll number 843)
- Location:
- Boycetown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: J. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 035
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- The ground on which potatoes are grown is usually stubble ground, that is ground from which a crop of corn had been taken the previous year. When the crop is taken from the field in Autumn the farmer begins to prepare the land for the potatoes.
The first thing he does is he gives the field a light ploughing with a three sod plough. This cuts the weeds and stubbles. Then, if it is his custom he puts out the manure and ploughs it into the land. He leaves it in this condition until Spring.
In Spring he cross-ploughs it harrows it crushes and rolls it. If it is then fine enough he opens the drills.
- Collector
- John Shevlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunany, Co. Louth
